Best 538 quotes in «privilege quotes» category

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

The more divided people of color are in a system of white supremacy/privilege, the weaker they will be, both individually and collectively.

The overcoming power is God's; the overcoming privilege is ours!

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.

There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for me to get to learn that.

The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest.

There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

There is no magical reason why I am where I am. And there is absolutely no reason why you can't be where you want to be. If it can happen for me, it can happen for you, too. And it would be a privilege for me to help you get there.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen in the sense of the Constitution, and entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining to that capacity.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

There really is no cost, only the privilege of serving the King of Kings.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither being in itself nor being for itself but being for the other, in other words, that human existence is a creature. By offering a word, the subject putting himself forward lays himself open and, in a sense, prays.

The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.

The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.